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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.

William Butler Yeats

A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Easy Home Invention Journalist Lying Man Stay Vote
What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Destroy Fear Himself Man Understand
Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Angel Dance Flame Mountain Ride World Yourself
Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Earth Existence Feet Ourselves True
I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Body Care Dreams Imagination Light Myself Observation Reason Silence Truth Vision
There is another world, but it is in this one.
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Hide Perspective World
Hammer your thoughts into unity.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Build Inspirational Reality Unity Yourself
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Dreams Feet Myself Poor
Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Children Kiss Laughter Life Woman
One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

King Life Live Slave Sleep Soul Spiritual
It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Emotion Enemy Greatness Ourselves Trouble
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Business Head Heart World
When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Better Call Connection Dance Togetherness
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Drink Man Sober Worst
I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Break Course Hard Heart Love
It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Discipline Love Myself One Liner True

I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.

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